The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-08-18
LOCAL,
WosrnIserou. llInH., AUausr 10. 1851

Nice Red Hammock for sale at this
Office. 81 tt
Hay is So TO 50 . ton on track in
Worthington.
In the list of directors for the Wor.
Ellington Library We last week mad.
vertently omitted the name Of Geo. j.
Day.
We learn that 4 thousand men are
haying in the country just south OF
Ellsworth.
r. l.. Erskine has sold II COWS. most
ly due, we suppose, to advertising in
the ADVANCE.
Girl wanted to do light house work
and learn dressmaklng. Apply to
Mrs. GERE.
Those "Iunters' Warning" cards
gotten out by the ADVANCE are going
Of like hot cakes. Plenty more to be
had at low rates.
Worthington streets were full of
new faces Saturday. This must he due
to the presence of hay makers and
chicken slaughterers.
Girl wanted to do house work. In
qutre at this Office. stiff
We learn from practical mill men
that the quality of wheat this year is
not as good as it was last year. The
average yield in this and adjoining
counties is estimated at Is bushels to
the acre.
The county auditor has on file 1873
applications for bounties on trees, the
extent being 428 acres and 9,156 rods
on highways. The total bounty
claimed is $l,455.
Mr.. Gilbert, of the mills above Jack
son. was in town Tuesday. He is
strongly inclined to come to WOrthing.
ton and we wisl, lie could get the Okla
bena plant and start up to grind this
seasons wheat.
There were II land hunters here yes
terday and Is the day before. in charge
of Mr.. Aagard. looking at our lands.
We learn that 20 more are expected in
a few days.
| Banker Geo. D. Dayton has received
the sad intelligence that his brother,
Rev. B. B. Dayton, died at sea Aug.
| 10th, while returning from Europe,
and was buried at seq.
The county treasurer has been pay
ing out about $3.50 q week lately in
gopher bounties. The total amount at
at present is between ST 300 and 81 400.
and the 81, 500 appropriation, it is
thought. will be exhausted by the end
of this week, when payment of boun-
ties will have to cease.
The Sibley papers, in giving an &C.
count IF the base ball game. speak
disparagingly of the Worthington um-
pire. They say that the WOrthingtOn
pitcher and catcher were too much for
the Sibleys. but denounce the decisions
of the umpire. The Worthington boys
claim this is unfair criticism. No
"umpiring" would have changed the
result.
The board Of audit. mentioned last
week rs sitting, has finished the exam.
inatiOn of the treasurer's accounts and
will report to the county board. They
found cash on hand to the amount OF
of $8.5OO.92. Also that there had been
paid out in gopher bounties mp to that
time $1,O02.l7, and on poor fund
81 .OO6.23. Since then the gophers have
gone ahead Of the poor considerably.
A man was in town the other day
selling views. He was Henry George
land man. They are thickeniDg, and
we suppose the new party will swear
BY George.
PERSONALS.
Register of Deeds johnson has gone
to Sioux City to attend the re-. union.
n. A. Barlow, a former Worthing-
ton merchant, is visiting friends here
Gus Swanberg, of the Swedish Mer
camille Store, Is in Sioux City.
II. E. Torrance has gone to Chicago
for more goods.
Attorney Z. S. Rohrer. of St. Paul
is here this week visiting the family.
N. V. Mcdowell has returned from
trip to Iowa.
Clerk of Court Stevens has returned
from a visit to his farm in Le0ta.
Will Hubbard Herman, Journalist
and poet, was in town yesterday on hi
way to Mapleton, Iowa. to take charg'
Of a paper. We acknowledge yer,
pleasant call.
Merchant Barber and Station Agen
Trip, Of Round Lake, we're in tow
this week.
Frank LOOMS and brother Harry
of St. Paul, are spending the hunting
season with Orlo Hecox.
Mrs. Leroy Cole of Minneapolis, i
in town visiting friends.
Word has been received from Sa,
Jose, CAL, that Peter Banks lost hi
left arm recently by getting caught il
some machinery.